Written Answers Tuesday 6 April 2010

Scottish Executive

Health

Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many psychologists are employed by each NHS board.

Nicola Sturgeon: Information on the number of psychologists employed in NHSScotland is published on the National Services Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) website under the psychology workforce planning project report available at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5381.html .

Health

Dr Richard Simpson (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the record of a patient who subsequently decides to opt out of the Emergency Care Summary scheme will be deleted from the relevant database.

Nicola Sturgeon: If a patient decides to opt out then information is deleted from the ECS database. The only information held about a patient that has opted out will be the patient forename, surname, CHI number and opt out status.

Health

Dr Richard Simpson (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of inappropriate or illegal access to patient emergency care records have (a) been recorded, (b) resulted in prosecution and (c) resulted in action by a health professional council.

Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish Government does not centrally hold information on the number of recorded unauthorised viewings of the ECS by health professionals. It is the responsibility of individual health boards to report and investigate in line with their own local policies and procedures. Nevertheless it is understood that (a) there have been three cases of inappropriate access and one case reported to Procurator Fiscal, (b) there have been no prosecutions to date and (c) one case is currently being investigated by the GMC.

NHS Funding

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what NHS Tayside’s percentage share of the overall initial revenue allocation to territorial NHS boards is in 2010-11 and what that percentage would be using the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) calibration.

Nicola Sturgeon: NHS Tayside’s percentage share of the overall initial revenue allocation to territorial NHS boards in 2010-11 was 7.97%, this compares to their NRAC target share of 7.84%.

  I have confirmed that no Board will receive less funding than it does at present as a result of transition to the NRAC formula and any changes will be phased in over a number of years as has been the practice under both the previous SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.

NHS Funding

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what the initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside were in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10 and is for 2010-11 and what the equivalent values would be using the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target allocations.

Nicola Sturgeon: The initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2007-08 and the equivalent values would be using the NRAC formula are shown in the following table (note the 2007-08 and 2008-09 figures are based on the Arbuthnott formula):

  

 
Initial Allocation
Adjusted Figure


Year
£m
£m


2007-08
549.1
548.2


2008-09
566.4
565.6


2009-10
578.6
567.0


2010-11
592.9
583.1



  I have confirmed that no NHS Board will receive less funding than it does at present as a result of the transition to the NRAC formula and any changes will be phased in over a number of years as has been the practice under both the previous SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.